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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared the State arsenic escaped from utmost poorness astatine a peculiar league of the Assembly connected the juncture of ‘Kerala Piravi’ connected Saturday (November 1, 2025), making it the archetypal Indian State to marque specified a declaration. The Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) walked retired of the league questioning the propriety of convening a peculiar league conscionable for the Chief Minister to marque a connection nether Rule 300 of the location procedures. Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan besides called it a “hollow proclamation”.
Mr. Vijayan, who called this year’s Kerala Piravi the commencement of a caller epoch for Kerala, spoke astatine magnitude astir the four-year agelong process that led to the declaration. Refuting the Opposition allegations that the declaration was a publicity stunt up of the section assemblage elections, helium said that the implementation of the Extreme Poverty Alleviation Project (EPEP) was a determination taken successful the archetypal Cabinet gathering of the existent Left Democratic Front (LDF) successful 2021.
“We lone marque promises we tin fulfil and we person fulfilled what we promised,” helium said.
He said that the process of identifying the highly mediocre families began wrong 2 months of that decision, with progressive nationalist participation, including section assemblage representatives, Kudumbashree workers, volunteers and officials. The families identified done information postulation astatine the section assemblage level were scrutinised and recommended by the ward committees. This was subjected to ace cheque and a draught database was prepared. This database was presented to the grama sabhas and from it, 1,03,099 individuals from 64,006 families were identified arsenic highly poor. Considering food, health, lodging and income arsenic the captious factors for identifying the highly poor, micro plans were prepared for each family.
In the archetypal signifier of the EPEP, indispensable documents were provided to 21,263 people, who were struggling without adjacent the basal documents specified arsenic ration paper oregon Aadhaar card. Regular proviso of nutrient has present been ensured done Kudumbashree for 20,648 highly mediocre families. Health services, entree to medicines, vaccinations, palliative attraction and organ transplants person been ensured, helium said.
Houses were provided nether the LIFE ngo for 4,677 families, portion 2,713 families were provided onshore and houses. Livelihood enactment was provided to 4,394 families. A full of 35,041 families were made portion of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). A strategy to supply peculiar attraction to 5,583 children done the Education Department and escaped question for acquisition purposes was implemented. Scholarships were provided to 331 students. A full of 428 single-member families were shifted to harmless structure homes.
Quoting world journals and United Nations reports from the 1970s, which indicated that Kerala was facing issues including poorness and precocious commencement rates, Mr. Vijayan said that the State has made commendable advancement since those days done continuous interventions by wide movements and progressive governments arsenic good arsenic broad reforms successful agrarian relations, nationalist involution successful the wellness and acquisition sectors.
“The process of eradicating utmost poorness is simply a continuation of the steps taken earlier for the cosmopolitan nationalist organisation strategy and for the eradication of landlessness and homelessness. Kerala has made singular advancement successful the Sustainable Development Index envisioned by the United Nations by eradicating utmost poverty. Our State is simply a laboratory for galore payment activities. In presumption of utmost poorness alleviation too, we tin anticipation that our experiments volition go a exemplary that different states successful the state tin payment from. This arrogant accomplishment belongs to the full radical of Kerala. We are witnessing a historical moment,” helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said that the authorities has spent implicit ₹1,000 crore for the implementation of the scheme. Steps should beryllium taken to guarantee that nary of those who person been freed bash not autumn backmost into utmost poverty. For this, due checks request to beryllium carried retired from clip to time.
